Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Public TV plays important role

I read with dismay the front-page article reporting that Gov. Otter has proposed eliminating state funding for public television. Of peculiar concern is the report that locally produced programming will be the first to be cancelled. The function of public media is, first, to provide a platform for public service programming not addressed by commercial media. This is not big government, it is the people of Idaho determining what type of information is vital to a functioning democracy. It's about locally produced programming about issues Idahoans care about, rather than the crass, mind-numbing crap served up by commercial media. Large subsidies are granted commercial broadcasters in the form of free access to the broadcast spectrum, yet our lawmakers can't seem to allocate 9 cents a month per capita for public media. Idaho families deserve better.

Steve Child

Ketchum



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